FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN M.DCC.LXXXIX. TO THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS IN M.DCCC.XV. BY ARCHIBALD ALISON, F. R. S. E., ADVOCATE. VOLUME THE SECOND. SECOND EDITION. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH; M.DCCC.XXXV. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. State of Public feeling in Paris after the Execution of the King--Retirement Government of the Jacobins-The Committee of Public Safety-Coalition of the Departments against their authority-Its speedy dissolution-Extreme and cruel measures every where put in force by the Jacobin clubs and authori- ties-Abolition of Sunday-Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday- Her execution-Arrest of seventy three Members of the Convention-Cruel treatment of the Dauphin-Trial and Execution of Queen Marie Antoinette -Destruction of the monuments at St Denis-Fête of the Goddess of Reason -Universal abandonment of Religion, and closing of the Churches-Exces- sive dissolution of Manners-Arrest and Death of Bailly, the Duke of Or- leans, and all the Orleans party-Estrangement of the Dantonists, and Com- mittee of Public Safety-Arrest, Trial, and Execution of Hebert, and the Anarchists, Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and all their party.-59-118. |